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Live from Seoul, Marc Flury breaks down the modern factors and historical forces behind Asian island disputes, and explains how trade routes, resource rights and military power converge to create a potentially explosive international melodrama.

Marc also gives us an update on his upcoming rhythm violence videogame - THUMPER.

CEPR’s Dan Beeton examines US policies in Latin America through a cache of its own leaked diplomatic cables, and finds efforts to undermine democratically elected governments and isolate popular, leftist leaders for the sake of corporate profit and political advantage.

Writers Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace examine the causes and consequences of America’s century-long drug war in Mexico, from its roots in racial panic to an uncontrollable wave of violence unleashed across Mexican society.

Debt activist Fanny Malinen examines the nature of Greece’s debt, and finds the public bearing costs of the financial sector, austerity policies crippling the national economy, and a complicit international news media pushing a morality play instead of reporting on the lives of Greeks under the creditors’ thumb.